Staff Accountant

Summary

Join Mux, a video technology company, as an Accountant to drive accurate and scalable accounting practices. You will manage accounts receivable, oversee contracts and renewals, assist with deferred revenue, and respond to customer and internal inquiries. Responsibilities include month-end close reconciliation, journal entry preparation, and ad-hoc projects. The ideal candidate possesses 3-5 years of general accounting experience, a BS/BA in finance or accounting, familiarity with ASC 606, and experience with finance tech tools. Mux offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work-life balance.

Requirements

• Detail-oriented: Ability and willingness to dig into the details whether the issue is big or small
• Team Player: You want to support the team whether that means helping with an expense report or handling daily payments and collections
• Strong communication: ability to communicate with customers and/or vendors while preserving Mux values
• Commitment to Mux values: Be Human, Care Obsessively, Turn Customers Into Fans
• Team-first approach: Humility, drive, empathy
• 3 - 5 years experience in general accounting role
• BS/BA Degree in finance or accounting or in relevant fields
• Familiar with ASC 606 revenue recognition
• Understanding of GAAP and ability to apply to a SaaS organization
• Experience communicating with customers and/or vendors
• Experience with tools in the finance tech stack (Netsuite, Stripe, Navan) or similar tools
• Experience with external or internally built billing system

Responsibilities

• Manage accounts receivable function by ensuring invoicing, collection and cash application is completed in an accurate and timely manner
• Oversee new contracts and contract renewals, partnering with the BizOps and Revenue teams to ensure proper revenue recognition is applied in the appropriate periods
• Assist with deferred revenue schedules and ensure we are compliant under ASC 606
• Respond to both customer and internal inquiries and representing the Mux finance team in a professional and partner-first manner
• Reconcile sales tax between our internal reporting and our internal billing system. Provide reports to tax firm to complete the monthly sales tax filings
• Become a trusted advisor to internal teams by answering accounting and financial questions and researching and interpreting rules, regulations and internal policies
• Reconcile various balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis including payments from customers
• Prepare and review month-end close schedules including bank reconciliations, sales tax, intercompany receivables / payables
• Prepare and record various journal entries including revenue, accruals, intercompany elimination
• Implementation of tools / platforms to scale accounting processes
• Prepare files for both tax returns and audits
• Assist with various accounting projects as they come up

Preferred Qualifications

1 - 2 years in public accounting

Benefits

• Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays
• Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks
• Healthy work-life balance encouraged
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 65% dependent premium coverage)
• Fully funded fertility benefits
• HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)
• FSA available
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Group life insurance
• Travel accident insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical support concierge service
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Investment in career growth through professional development stipend
• Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers
• Lunch reimbursement program